Let's get philosophical - 2010-08-07

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1:03 PM

Why is there a star after every message?

What has science done?!

Marc has screwed something up.

2:01 PM

My chat name is wrong.

It's supposed to match my Meta profile, right?

It's wrong.

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Why is there a message-length limit? I told Balpha that was a stupid idea.

Damn it why does no one listen to reason anymore?

This is Jeff's fault. He's turned them all into vampires.

Part of the employment contract at Stack Overflow must be "abandon all reason, ye who are employed here."

1 hour later…

3:17 PM

Grace, you've changed your avatar.

I changed it weeks ago.

If I hadn't already gotten you hooked on another game, I would recommend you gander at Suguri.

Well, I don't have avatars at work so I didn't notice until now.

Ah, I see

I've been busy enough with Khemia.

Indeed, you have. Still enjoying it?

3:18 PM

Absolutely.

I still haven't managed to bed the pink-haired girl.

How many people in your party now?

Seven.

Ah, so you've got Roxis and Anna

Yeah.

Anna is such a stereotypical character.

I don't like her because she's the same as that type of character in everything.

Cutting holes in timespace and having an extremely overactive imagination that gets her in trouble is typical?

3:20 PM

I don't like Vayne because he is a pansy.

She's never done any of those things.

You're either lying or spoiling.

The former is just what her attack skills are like.

Though I guess I do like how she and Flay get along.

But mostly that's Flay being awesome rather than Anna.

The latter is from her bio in the instruction booklet. If you followed her story you'd see it in greater detail.

Well, Flay IS awesome.

Flay is the best.

Pink-haired girl is the second best.

He's absolutely why I recommended the game to you.

3:23 PM

She's the best pink-haired pyrokleptomaniac I've ever seen.

That she is

I spend all my free time with her as I can.

She and Flay

There's something somewhat odd about having free time in a video game.

I should be able to order my characters to play video games in their free time.

Heh

Pyromaniacs are so dreamy

I miss your Okuu avatar.

I like it, too, but that's why I expanded it to a wallpaper.

3:34 PM

If you hadn't had that avatar I would have never noticed that you were a cool dude.

Well, I'm glad I had it around at some point, then.

Avatars are serious business.

I might switch back later on. But gonna stick with 4-Cannon.

This is acceptable.

Avatars reveal my SUPERFICIAL NATURE

4 hours later…

7:22 PM

Double Welbog

Hello

How can there be a double Welbog?

Well if it isn't Chachachacha.

I can only take one..

eh, we scared him off from The Tavern Wave

don't be too hard on him here

We were talking about furries.

7:25 PM

redundant furries

Awesome gay furries.

But anyway, look at the image above. That's the character from Grace's avatar.

She has wings and is a raven. Does that make Grace a furry?

what image above? "4chan.org"?

Oh, it's broke.

Damn

Nevermind.

will-do

and yes, Grace is probably a furry.

you guys have a lot in common

So you're saying that Grace is a furry because you think I'm a furry?

7:29 PM

No, I'm saying you're both furry because you like the same furry-laden game

Oh.

There aren't that many furries in those games.

Let me count them.

I counted five creatures in that poster

two of them were furry

that's like... 40% furry.

40 is practically 50, which is half

Oh those. Yeah, there are a lot of furries.

But in my case at least I don't care for any of the furry characters so far.

Actually, I'm more for the ghost girl.

so the game is probably half furry - most games aren't even half of that!

7:31 PM

The pink-haired girl is not a furry.

are you sure?

no

I mean, have you checked?

everywhere?

I've been trying to check.

so the game is hiding something from you?

sounds awful suspicious

7:31 PM

!

I'll bet by the time you reach the final chapter, you'll have discovered that everyone is furry except you

and then, in the exciting conclusion to the story...

...you find that you also are furry

Well, the main character has a talking cat. I'm pretty sure he's a furry.

I think that only half counts. Your cat spends half the time being a sword.

Claw. Armor. Thing.

It's a very disturbed cat.

Its identity is all screwed up. Like a furry!

At least he's got more spine than the main character does

7:33 PM

It's a cat that identifies as an armor claw thing.

Are we confusing furries with otherkin?

Yeah that guy really needs to man up.

What the fuck is otherkin?

Otherkin are to furries what furries are to your average person.

costumed freaks?

Nah, fursuits can be either.

7:35 PM

So otherkin are furries who are shunned by furries?

General scenario is that they believe they're the reincarnation of some animal and that they actually have said animal's spirit in them.

DOUBLE furries?!

Furries just like animal and animal-people.

INJUNS!

Isn't that just Buddhism?

7:36 PM

/ shamanism

Not quite. For example, I know someone who is convinced he is a dolphin.

does he spend a lot of time in the water eating raw fish?

While the past life system is similar to certain faiths and religions, otherkin are the kind who think they are supposed to be that kind of animal.

You know. You might be one of the few people who know stranger people than the people I know, Grace.

I don't think I've ever met someone who knows weirder people than me.

Wait till I talk about otakukin.

Which is stupid as opposed to just plain different.

7:37 PM

WTF

WTF indeed

Oh wait are these the guys with the fuckpillows?

To summarize, Otakukin are to reincarnations of alternate dimensional Anime characters what Otherkin are to animals you see in real life.

Because I know a lot of those guys.

IDORU

7:38 PM

Oh. OK so it's not what I was thinking at all.

The "anime" that we "watch", according to them, actually depicts real happenings in an alternate dimension from which they were reincarnated into this dimension from.

Hahahaha wha

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Past the stupidity of the concept itself is the fact that most people with half a brain and familiarity with the term know that otaku is an insult.

so are "yankee", "gay", "spaz", and "furry"

I always considered yankee an insult but I thought that was because I was from Massachussetts.

7:41 PM

...and "welbog", if I have anything to do with it

@Shog you are a spaz. And a yankee.

indeed! And I'll admit to both with pride.

Yankee is an insult?

which just goes to show how stupid pride is

yes. Still is, in some places / for some people.

Oh, and you're stupid

7:43 PM

Oh damn it I checked on my stew and smelled it and now I'm hungry even though I wasn't before.

Damn you, Pavlov.

But those terms weren't selected by said groups to represent themselves out of blind understanding of what it meant, though.

Don't be a dog

But I like dogs.

They're fluffy and friendly and awesome.

furry

blind understanding? Sounds likely...

7:44 PM

If it was other people who came up with the term "Otakukin", it wouldn't be nearly as self-deprecating.

I personally don't take being called a furry as insulting. It's like if you called me a chair. I'm not a chair much in the same way that I am not a furry.

You chair.

That's a strangely logical defense that I need to try out in more scenarios.

You welbogging furry!

Y'all trannies.

...and?

7:46 PM

I never remember whether "tranny" was slang for tv or ts.

I got nothin'.

It's both.

it's slang for the gearbox in your car

Personally I would only use it for TS, though.

I don't know any TVs.

Tranny is slang for transvestite.

Surprisingly, if I think about it, I also don't know any TV.

And up until 2-3 years ago, never knew any TS. Then I have met roughly one every month.

7:47 PM

How about that SGU junk?

I don't really see how that's surprising.

Do you not even know of Sanyo or PYE?

I mean are transvestites even that common?

Homos and such are a lot more common.

outside of Rocky Horror?

I always figured I'd meet a lot more of them then transgender or transexuals.

7:48 PM

"Homos and such".

Especially since I knew what a transvestite was for 18 years before I learned what a transsexual was.

Twin Peaks

Triple Peaks

Wait, what?

There's supposed to be another cross-dressing detective on some new show.

celebrityrush.com/news/2234/…

7:51 PM

You know who's a good comedian? Eddie Izzard.

Isn't he a drama actor?

Hah, yes, he is

Huh, so that's how you do it.

that dude from the "I'm a mac..." ads. Also, I miss intra-post replies.

These replies are stupid.

Threading is nicer.

7:56 PM

So is just plain linear chat.

Where is our nesting?

OK, my curry is nearly done. I just need to make some riiiiiiice.

Rice is awesome. I have four kinds of rice in my cupboard.

Do you have a rice cooker?

None of it is that instant crap.

Long, sticky?

7:57 PM

or do you steam it

Of course I do.

Rice is impossible to cook without a rice cooker!

Steam it in a rice cooker, same thing

basimati, jasmine, ...?

Never thought about steaming rice

I use a pressure cooker...

7:58 PM

Basmati, US long, US brown, sticky

Steaming rice in a pot when you don't have a rice cooker is simple enough

but you can certainly just cook it in a pot on the stove

Making basmati now 'cause, y'know, curry.

Have you done curry rissoto?

I have not. Let me look this up.

I could try that.

8:02 PM

It sounds as simple as letting that curry sauce linger heavy in the rice

Let's ask Shog. He's a world-famous cooking blogger.

2

His last blog post was particularly above-par

wut? if you bastards hacked my account and posted something...

whew, all good (and very, very old)

Shog, how do risotto ?

You should publish ebooks based on the monthly wisdom you dole out

8:09 PM

risotto wouldn't work too well with basmati rice

it holds its shape too well

:60468 Just call it something like "Just add Shog"

you want soft, starchy rice, so you can kinda just let it dissolve into the broth as it cooks

i don't see any reason why you couldn't make it with curry though

just need fairly liquid curry

or extra broth

More like why isn't he making it with curry already

well, yeah - if you haven't started yet, go ahead

put your computer next to the stove and chat while you stir

basmati won't be all that creamy, but it'll taste wonderful

This is why I have a laptop. I use it in the kitchen all the time.

But anyway I'm already making my rice and the curry's all done.

I won't be doing anything fancy at this time.

8:12 PM

risotto is simple, it's just a bit time-consuming

it's like... creamy wheats...

savory farina

with delicious rice instead of bland wheat bits

dammit, welbog, now I'm hungry. And I just ate.

Hahaha, that's what rice does to me, too.

I am in love with rice.

I grew up on potatoes and never liked rice. But at some point I got sick of potatoes and since then rice has been my staple food.

Eventually I'll probably switch back to potatoes or bread or something else.

don't stick with one thing until you're sick of it

i've done that too many times, it's just a waste

That's why there are so many varieties.

yes! there are so many different and differently-delicious kinds of rice, potatoes, bread, pasta...

8:28 PM

Mmmm, food

Now, to taste my creation.

I added fewer beets than I usually do.

Hopefully that will mean I'll be able to taste more of the other things.

didn't you taste it while you were cooking it?

I live in a world of adventure and uncertainty.

yeah, but... you should taste it while you're cooking it

That would take away from the mystery.

>:

sure, but you'd be able to adjust it if you wanted to. Also, you'd get to eat some of it.

8:32 PM

I follow the waterfall methodology of cooking.

None of your fancy Agile crap.

You follow the insanity fall of life

big ball of mud pattern?

3 hours later…

11:38 PM

Oh no

It's starting to look like a triple Welbog.

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